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dc.contributor.advisorSanders, Ian
dc.contributor.authorHevey, Phonsie Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-30T12:58:25Z
dc.date.available2017-05-30T12:58:25Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.citationPhonsie Joseph Hevey, 'Thermal modelling of planetesimals heated by 26 A1 : implications for chondrule formation', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geology, 2002, pp 251
dc.identifier.otherTHESIS 6833
dc.description.abstractChondrules are enigmatic components of chondritic meteorites. After decades of research a consensus as to how chondrules formed has not been found. In general it has been assumed that chondrules formed in the solar nebula when dust clumps had been flash heated by some mechanism. An alternative to this is that they formed in a planetary environment. This work aims to test the hypothesis that chondrules are the frozen spray resulting from the disruption of molten planetesimals. A detailed numerical model of the heating, melting, and cooling of early-formed radioactive planetesimals is developed with a view to seeing whether the temperature, composition and timing of the melt is consistent with what is known of these same variables in relation to chondrules. In addition, the model can be used to constrain the timing of planetesimal accretion. The model is a solution of the heat equation with variable parameters based on a Crank-Nicholson finite differencing scheme. Initially, the validity of the numerical model is confirmed by showing that, in the simple case where thermal properties have fixed values, it gives identical results to the corresponding analytical solution.
dc.format1 volume
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTrinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geology
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://stella.catalogue.tcd.ie/iii/encore/record/C__Rb12429548
dc.subjectGeology, Ph.D.
dc.subjectPh.D. Trinity College Dublin
dc.titleThermal modelling of planetesimals heated by 26 A1 : implications for chondrule formation
dc.typethesis
dc.type.supercollectionthesis_dissertations
dc.type.supercollectionrefereed_publications
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
dc.rights.ecaccessrightsopenAccess
dc.format.extentpaginationpp 251
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dc.description.notePrint thesis water damaged as a result of the Berkeley Library Podium flood 25/10/2011
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/80269


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